Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Have you ever heard of Karl Landsteiner? Paul Ehrlich? Or Rosalind Franklin? If these names don’t ring a bell, you can read all about them in British writer Norman Lebrecht’s informative book, Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 (Scribner). Landsteiner, one of the first immunologists, made modern surgery possible by developing a method for testing different blood types. Ehrlich was the father of chemotherapy. Franklin was instrumental in mapping out our DNA system.